Paweł Pawlikowski Comes to Slano with FATHERLAND

Slano Film Days once again brings together some of the most important names in contemporary European and world cinema.

A regular guest and close friend of Slano Film Days, Paweł Pawlikowski returns to Slano with his new film FATHERLAND, which received the Best Director award at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival. Following its world premiere at Cannes, the film will have its Croatian premiere in Slano.

FATHERLAND is an intimate, visually sumptuous black-and-white elegy about the relationship between Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika Mann during their journey through a devastated postwar Germany at the beginning of the Cold War. The film, which received a strong critical response at Cannes, has been described as an emotionally precise and formally virtuosic work that uses an intimate family story to reveal the broader crisis of European identity.

FATHERLAND topped Screen International’s 2026 Cannes Jury Grid among films in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

In addition to the screening of FATHERLAND, Paweł Pawlikowski will take part in a Film Talk with regional participants, moderated by Ruben Östlund, one of the most important contemporary European filmmakers and a two-time winner of the Palme d’Or.

FATHERLAND will be screened on Friday, June 19, at the Slano Film Days Open-Air Cinema at Villa Riva. Admission to the screening is free of charge.